On 17 Sep 2004, at 04:59, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
The problem with such a scheme is that, to be fair, we would have to go back through the archives of each project, determine the actual copyright holders, and ask if they want to be named by a copyright notice. Some will, some won't, and this will inevitably lead to an ego war over the fact that some of the least-contributing individuals will be more prominently named throughout the source code than those who contributed 80% or more of the code. Furthermore, contributions that came from employed individuals will most likely need to acknowledge both the individual and their employer(s). Even worse, some of the lawyers for some of those companies will erroneously claim that they own all IP generated by their employees, and will therefore object if we do try to name them as individuals.
FWIW, this is what eventually stalled the "situation" with the Cocoon fork of Rhino of mozilla.org.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236108
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java & XML An Orixo Member Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
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